Pediatric Healthcare for Refugee Minors in Europe: Steps for Better Insight and Appropriate Treatment

In recent years, "children on the move" have become a major issue in Europe. Among more than 1 million migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees arriving in Europe in 2015, about one-third were children and about 90,000 of these were unaccompanied.1,2 Politicians, health authorities, and health providers were equally unprepared for this challenge. As a consequence, healthcare for this group was often not adequately scheduled and until now it has been uncoordinated. In several countries, nongovernmental organizations and individual persons started initiatives for better healthcare provision for children on the move.

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